PHOTOS: Concord High School’s German exchange students visit State House

Gerrit Josephs poses for a photo at the podium in the Hall of Representatives during a tour of the State House on Tuesday, October 15, 2013. Josephs is one of more than 25 students who are part of an exchange between Maximilian-Kolbe Gymnasium in Wegberg, Germany and Concord High School.

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Henrik Lambertz, 16, shows the preview on his camera to his classmates while showing pictures he took of his them posing with the cardboard cut out of President Obama while in the visitor's center at the State House on October 15, 2013.

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Concord High School's German exchange students visit the State House. The group of more than 25 students are all from Maximilian-Kolbe Gymnasium in Wegberg, Germany.

“This group is a little taller than the fourth-graders I usually have on a tour,” said Virginia Drew, director of the school visitation program at the State House, to the group of more than 25 high-school-age German exchange students that she led Tuesday afternoon. The students are a part of an exchange that’s been going on since 1981 between the Maximilian-Kobel Gymnasium in Wegberg, Germany, and Concord High School. For a month, they learn about life here, and in June, students in Concord travel to Germany.